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- catalog abstract "Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Latterday critics have characterized the schools as destroyers of Indian communities and cultures, but the reality K. Tsianina Lomawaima discloses was much more complex. "Indian people took possession of Chilocco and made it their own," she writes. "Their voices should tell its history." In recollections juxtaposed against the official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, students from the 1920s and '30s recall their loneliness and demoralization but also remember with pride the love and mutual support binding them together, their creative rebellions against petty authority, the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones, the skills and trades they mastered, and the leadership they developed. The evocative chapter titles cover the gamut of the boarding school experience expressed in Lomawaima's interviews: "They Called It Prairie Light," "The Finest School on Earth," "I Could Always Plow a Pretty Straight Line," "You're a Woman, You're Going to be a Wife," "You Dizzy Bastard, Get in Step!," "Hm! White Boy - You Got No Business Here!"".
- catalog alternative "Story of Chilocco Indian School.".
- catalog contributor b5825646.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Latterday critics have characterized the schools as destroyers of Indian communities and cultures, but the reality K. Tsianina Lomawaima discloses was much more complex. "Indian people took possession of Chilocco and made it their own," she writes. "Their voices should tell its history." In recollections juxtaposed against the official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, students from the 1920s and '30s recall their loneliness and demoralization but also remember with pride the love and mutual support binding them together, their creative rebellions against petty authority, the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones, the skills and trades they mastered, and the leadership they developed. The evocative chapter titles cover the gamut of the boarding school experience expressed in Lomawaima's interviews: "They Called It Prairie Light," "The Finest School on Earth," "I Could Always Plow a Pretty Straight Line," "You're a Woman, You're Going to be a Wife," "You Dizzy Bastard, Get in Step!," "Hm! White Boy - You Got No Business Here!"".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 205 p., [10] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0803229046 (cl. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog subject "370/.08997 20".
- catalog subject "Chilocco Indian School History.".
- catalog subject "E97.6.C4 L65 1994".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Biography.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Cultural assimilation.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Education.".
- catalog title "Story of Chilocco Indian School.".
- catalog title "They called it prairie light : the story of Chilocco Indian School / K. Tsianina Lomawaima.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".